Lars Nyberg «

Lars Nyberg in Stockholm , Sweden.

Biography

I was born in 1956 in the north of Sweden and attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1978–1983. In Dublin I have visited and worked at the Graphic Studio Workshop for more than fifteen years. Since 2005 I am also an Associate Member of Graphic Studio Dublin.

Since I was seventeen years old I have been working with the drypoint technique. To feel and hear the steel needle travelling in the copperplate is meditative music for me.

The happy surprise of printmaking is, besides working with a unique media, that after a long period of thinking and scratching upon the copperplate, I can print extra copies from the plate, give away prints, or sell the prints not too expensively.

My prints are held in museums and public collections and most importantly, in private homes. The prints are living their new lives, together with the person that once bought them.

For me, it is a happiness to know that.

There is always something unpredictable happening when working with drypoint, I can never be sure of the result, what the proof looks like when I lift the paper from the copperplate. The inscribed lines live their own lives in the copper – I like that.

I exhibit frequently in Sweden and Ireland and my last exhibition in Dublin was in 2007 together with James McCreary at the Graphic Studio Gallery. Some selected group exhibitions I have participated in recently are:

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Galleri Odvalds, Gotland, Sweden

Gallery Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, ” Fine Art Prints from Sweden” shown in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, New Delhi and Calcut

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Annual Exhibition

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, “Holy Show “, “Gardens of Earthly Delight” and “ Artists Proof”

Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, County Mayo, ”Images from North Mayo”

My artworks can be found in the collections of:

Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm

Office of Public Works, Dublin

The Ballinglen Archive, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland

The British Museum, London

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York